Telltale has revealed their mystery game, and it is – as expected – a poker game with four noteworthy characters, Tycho, Max, Heavy and Strong Bad, called Poker Night at the Inventory.

Prepare for a different kind of poker night in a very different kind of club. In Poker Night at the Inventory, you’ll deal with Penny Arcade’s clever, cunning Tycho, Team Fortress 2′s hulking Heavy, Homestar Runner’s self-proclaimed “awesome icon” Strong Bad and the hyperkinetic “rabbity-thing” from Sam & Max. These characters come together in ways some never thought possible, in a setting few would have predicted. You’ll experience a new style of poker, particularly when hands don’t go the way of the other fiery competitors at the table.

While some may be disappointed it’s just the four characters, the game is incredibly inexpensive. In fact, the preorder price is a mere $4.95, which can be purchased here.

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SpinTop Games has announced their latest hidden object game, Mystery P.I.: Stolen in San Francisco, the latest in the long-running Mystery P.I. series. As the title implies, this game takes place in the Golden Gate City.

There are three game types included with the game. In ‘Find the Stolen Gold’, the player has to find clues that will lead them to $250 Million in stolen solid gold, which had been pilfered from an armored car. The search will take the player around San Francisco, visiting sites such as the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, Haight-Ashbury, Fisherman’s Wharf, among other for a total of 25 scenes. The scenes feature over 2100 hidden objects. Collecting all the Keys & Peace Symbols unlock two bonus game modes: Unlimited Seek & Find and a Match-3 Bonus game.

“Since San Francisco is sometimes affectionately dubbed the Golden City, we thought it was the perfect setting for a gold heist. Glittering and gritty locations alike make this seek-and-find mystery a fun adventure for the whole family,” states Duncan Magee, co-director and co-founder of SpinTop. “We focused our efforts on creating the best visual locations ever to keep our millions of Mystery P.I. fans happy. We’ve always kept our artistic standards high, and I think we’ve exceeded them with Stolen in San Francisco!”

The deluxe version is available now at Spin Top Games, and will eventually be available in a few months at other game portals such as Gamehouse, MSN Gaming Zone, Pogo and Yahoo! Games.

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The venerable Worms franchise has been around since 1995, developed by Team17 as an offbeat variation on the classic Scorched Earth tank game in which you and your opponent took turns taking potshots at each other on an uneven terrain, as physics played with the calculated shots. Worms infused the genre with a wacky sense of humor, and it struck a chord with gamers.

Team17 has developed their latest in the series, Worms Reloaded, and if this was the last game ever produced in the series, it would be a marvelous tribute to the history of Worms and a fitting end to the series. This is the best game in the series, and the most fully packed.

For starters, the game looks absolutely gorgeous. The game has always featured cartoon-style graphics, but now, the images are crisp, with some fine details and smooth animation, all in loving high def. In addition, the sound has been jacked up as well – there are 70 speechbanks, 50 of which are from the previous Worms titles, and 20 all new speechbanks.

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The fourth game in the Samantha Swift series has been released, Samantha Swift and the Fountains of Fate, which is published by MumboJumbo and will be exclusively available from Big Fish for the next month.

Samantha Swift: Fountains of Fate is a hidden object game with six adventure missions that takes the player around the globe in the search for the legendary Fountain of Youth, while collecting artifacts for the Museum of Secrets Lost. Finding all of the Swift Birds in the game will unlock a special Unlimited Hidden Object game mode. The game also includes brain-teasing puzzles, and introduces Achievements which reward skillful play.

In Samantha Swift and the Fountains of Fate, Samantha’s quest to follow the trail of Cortez is interrupted by the manipulative M’Alice.  Sam grabs her PDA and scanner and goes on the hunt for M’Alice and the Emerald of Judgment, only to discover that perhaps the real treasure lies in the statuette with mysterious empty vials.  Soon Samantha discovers she’s on a quest to uncover the Fountain of Youth.

Gamers can download the demo and the full game from Big Fish Games here. An iPad version will be released later this August.

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Electronic Arts has announced Create, a puzzle-solving game that many have incorrectly labelled a “LittleBigPlanet clone”. Rather, it’s more in line with Sierra’s old The Incredible Machine titles in which you solve Rube Goldberg-like contraptions and create your own levels.

According to the press release:

The more players explore the game, solve level-based challenges, and customize their world, the more rewards will be unlocked. Creativity will be unleashed as players design environments with easy-to-use brushes and tools, including textures, props and animating objects that bring the scene to life.

Create will be released for the PC, Mac, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360 in November 2010, and will utilize both the Wii remote and PlayStation Move.

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